Editing

When I went to create second edit of my media production, I needed to locate my old footage from AS to incorporate into the new footage filmed on the 13/01/2017. This created some problems, as the change in technology in the Media editing suite meant that all files created last year were archived in a hard-drive stored in a separate building. This meant that once I had obtained the hard-drive, I had to look through all of the folders on it, only to discover that the file containing my edited footage from last year was saved onto one of the old mac computers that had been removed from the media editing suite, and thus inaccessible. To overcome this problem, I used online file converters to convert the finished first edit of my media project last year on YouTube into an mp4 file that I could then edit alongside my new footage in adobe premiere.

As my old footage was converted from YouTube, this limited the amount I could edit the footage I had filmed last year. As working from this converted footage was more convenient than locating the original video clips at home and postponing the editing process, I had to find a way to incorporate the old footage with the new whilst maintaining the correct order of titles and having continuity across the different font type and styles used throughout the title sequence. Firstly, to create a new title, I had to click on the icon that resembles a dog-eared piece of paper located at the bottom of the section of the screen that displays the imported footage. This allows you to create different items,so by selecting "New Item", and then "Title", I was able to create new titles to go over the new footage and to replace the titles located on old footage that had been cut from the first edit of the opening sequence of my film "sub-rosa".

Above is an example of the Title creation screen. As my new footage introduced two new actors (playing the roles of police investigators"), it was crucial that the new titles matched the style used over the old footage, in order to maintain continuity and a sense of professionalism. I could change the style of the font using the different example tiles at the bottom of the "Title" screen, and the font size and type could be changed using the two drop down menus on the left side of the top toolbar of the screen. 

To make sure that the titles remained in the correct order, to comply with the codes and conventions of film opening sequences, I copied a list of the correct title order and kept this on one side of the computer screen when editing, allowing me to cross off the titles once they had been successfully integrated into the second edit of the opening sequence of my film.

To maintain the style of the titles, you can select the option "Duplicate" after right-clicking on one of the other titles, located in the top right section of the screen that contains the imported footage, audio and visuals. Once duplicating the first title I had made to go over my new footage, all that was needed was to edit the text and position, before renaming the title and placing it on the second video track in the editing timeline, over the section of footage I want it to appear on.

Once applied to the area of the timeline that I want the title to appear over the footage at, the length of time that the title would appear on the screen by selecting one end of the rectangle representing the title and moving the ends until the size of the title's representation on the timeline amounts to roughly four seconds.

After the title was made to appear only for four seconds on the screen, I needed to apply transitions to make the titles appear and disappear from the on-screen footage. I did this by selecting the folder entitled "video transitions" under the tab labelled "effects" in the bottom left section of the editing screen. Once opened, a list of different types of transitions appears underneath the "video transitions" folder in the bottom left section of the screen. By selecting the option "dissolves", a further list of dissolve transitions is displayed. As dissolve transitions seem the most natural and least obtrusive effect offered by the options available in adobe premiere, I chose to apply "cross dissolves" to the beginning and ends of most of the footage and titles in my film, simply by dragging them from the bottom left corner of the screen onto the appropriate section of the timeline.